Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

by Jennie Allen

Our emotions were leading us to thoughts, and those thoughts were dictating our decisions, and our decisions were determining behaviors, and then the behaviors were shaping our relationships, all of which would take us back to either healthy or unhealthy thoughts.

it’s one of these three lies we believe: I’m helpless. I’m worthless. I’m unlovable.

The danger of toxic thinking is it produces an alternate reality, one in which distorted reasoning actually seems to make sense.

We have a choice because we are conquerors who possess weapons to destroy strongholds.

I have a choice. I can remember that the Spirit of God lives inside me and He will walk with me as I reach out to others who are just as human and just as in need of connection and grace as I am.

Cynicism is always driven by fear of the future or by anger regarding the past.

Cynicism at its root is a refusal to believe that God is in control and God is good. Cynicism is interpreting the world and God based on hurt you’ve experienced and the wounds that still lie gaping open. It forces you to look horizontally at people rather than vertically to God.

Beauty interrupts us, it awakens us, it undoes us, it cuts us open, and restarts our hearts. Beauty is God’s evidence of something far more wonderful coming, a world beyond the one we can imagine, even in the most spectacular moments here.